CSS Galleries: More Free CSS Templates
Posted: Wed 07/25/2007 by ramiroAbout 6 weeks ago I published an article introducing some valuable online resources for free Web designs. In the meantime I came across more sites that offer free templates, themes, skins, or however you want to call them, for download.
Free CSS Templates
All of the resources listed below offer free downloads, browsing and live previews of templates. Some sites feature CSS templates from various designers and offer designers to upload their own templates. Each site is briefly described.
Template Navigator
Template Navigator offers many free website and flash templates that can be browsed by category. Designers can submit their own templates. According to Template Navigator they offer high quality and free templates that are moderated and checked for quality before publication.
Free Website Templates
Free Website Templates allows you to modify or redistribute their templates provided you state that you used a template originally designed by Free Website Templates. You are not required to link back to Free Website Templates from your site though.
TemplateWorkz
TemplateWorkz offers website, logo, and newsletter templates for free. You are required to link back to their site, if you use their graphics on your site.
Capmex
Capmex features templates from various Web designers. The also have a blog and tutorial section on their site.
SixShooter Media
SixShooter Media features some clean fresh CSS templates that are not overloaded with graphics. You are required to leave a link to SixShooter Media in the template footer if you use one of their templates.
CMS Templates and Themes
The resources listed below offer free templates for download that can be used with website systems such as Drupal, Wordpress, Expression Engine, BB Press, phpBB, CMSimple, and Blogger.
Fresheezy
Fresheezy mainly features Wordpress themes but also templates for Expression Engine, BB Press, phpBB, and Blogger. You can search by keywords or by applying filters based on engine, number of columns, color scheme, and license. Most of the templates look as if they are 100% Web 2.0 compliant ;)
Gutenberg
Gutenberg is a raw theme for Drupal that lets you use CSS based Movable Type layout styles with Drupal without modification.
DotcomWebDesign
DotcomWebDesign has lots of templates you can download and use with the content management system CMSimple.
Recommended Web Design Books
Some books you can buy on Amazon that guide you on how to design your own unique template with HTML and CSS.
- CSS: The Definitive Guide
- The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web
- Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS
- Eric Meyer on CSS
- Designing with Web Standards









Open Source Web Design is listed in the first part of this series.
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